Claren Academy Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 773843693RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,926,325) as filed with the CRA.
Claren Academy Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 14% from government. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $25K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $673K in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Claren academy society operates claren academy whcih is an independent elementary school in downtown vancouver. Claren academy follows the bc curriculum and currently offers kindergarten to grade 7.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2.9M | $2.8M | — | — | -$1.2M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $2.4M | — | — | -$287K |
| 2022 | $3M | $2M | $2M | — | — | -$416K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | -$1.4M |
| 2020 | $673K | $1M | $916K | $3,480 | — | -$1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $25K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kathryn Sykes (director); Ryan Clark (director); Jamie Cheng (director); Jennifer Jones (director); Elizabeth Wiebe (director); Rebecca Lee (director); Ryan Black (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Claren Academy Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 773843693RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.